Stop looking at what you can't do and look ahead, to your safe landing. Visualize it.

And I realized that God hadn't abandoned me. I'd simply stopped trusting him. I thought my life had to be one way to be happy—but maybe . . ." He shook his head. "Maybe there is more for me. For us.

And hello, maybe you're exactly where you are supposed to be...maybe God used your issues to give you exactly what you wanted.

You have to embrace the life you have, not the one you expected you'd have - or the one others expect you to have.

What if your story is better than you imagined and by holding on, you're only creating the ending you can see?...God has a bigger plan for you than you do for yourself.

God made you the way he did for a reason. Go, be awesome.

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

Some players have ambitions, and therefore, they leave and want to experience something new, you know.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

I always think about life, and I think that we are here with a mission, and once we have done our mission, we go somewhere else.

What is qualified? What have I been qualified for in my life? I haven't been qualified to be a mayor. I'm not qualified to be a songwriter. I'm not qualified to be a TV producer. I'm not qualified to be a successful businessman. And so, I don't know what qualified means.

I hated the thought of being just a songwriter.